If I’m being honest, it’s no where near as bad as Twitter. But still a dumpster fire

Not really, it’s just not Reddit

Russia invaded Georgia? People laughed? Am I under a rock?

Edit: oh, the country, not the state

There were a bunch of fake accounts created, and there has been effort to remove them

Same

Yes

I actually don’t remember that, who was it?

Well they’re always yelling about how liberals are socialist or communist, and Russia was previously socialist and communist. Also they say they don’t like government to control things, and the Russian government controls everything. They hate on NPR and call it state sponsored, while all Russian media is state sponsored. So yeah, you would think they wouldn’t like Russia, but only if you thought they actually believe the shit they say.

I still to this day hate touch only phones and wish I had physical keys again. That being said, I use swipe, and it makes things a lot more tolerable.

ENOTTY, not a typewriter

Imagine going on a road trip and getting stuck somewhere 3 hours from home with no cell phone

Old science, yes. People forget how young modern science is, electricity was only “discovered” less than 300 years ago, the internet only became public 28 years ago, carbon dating isn’t even 100 years old yet, DNA wasn’t even broken down into it’s parts and structure until the 1950s, Einstein’s theory of relativity is barely over a century old. Archeology is hundreds if not thousands of years old, and even modern archeology probably started before the US was even a country

Your kind isn’t welcome here! Lol just kidding. What app still works?

Want some beans?

It’s a trap! It still asked me

I think we need blocklists that servers can opt into. My fear is that users use Meta’s version because it’s simpler (or appears simpler) and the federation centralizes.

There is massive work being done to improve large scale energy storage (big batteries) so the renewables become less and less situational. Large scale energy storage is significantly less constrained than car batteries, because weight is a one time cost. Even gravity based batteries could become viable.

Also, in response to the previous commenter, electricity generation is by far and large the main source of emissions accounting for more than half, with more than a quarter being agriculture. Transportation is 14%, and given the future transition to electric vehicles, one might argue that half of that can be tack’d on to electricity generation’s share. (Half because electric cars are more than twice as efficient at energy conversion than petrol cars. Toss in some power line losses and that’s a reasonable estimate)

Horizontal scaling of instances is somewhat good enough for me, at least for now

While you’re probably right, I would like to know how it’s going to be handled on a technical level. I would imagine the protocol has to already have support for something along those lines, but I’m too lazy to go look and understand for myself. Maybe in a week or two if I don’t know it I’ll start looking at the sauce code

Miata is always the answer